Comments on: Lightning Strike Triggers Amazon EC2 Outage

By: Hype Series Part II: Let’s Start Looking Beyond the Hype Peak

Hype Series Part II: Let’s Start Looking Beyond the Hype Peak — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 17:59:02 +0000

[...] In the past year there have been many Cloud outages: RackSpace Cloud, Azure, Amazon EC2, Salesforce.com, Google, Sidekick, PayPal, and Twitter all had well publicized outages. How elastic [...]

By: Costs and Risks to Consider When Planning a Move to the Public Cloud « WTI NewsBlog

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:51:01 +0000

[...] happens when your servers go offline for an extended period of time – remember last year when lightening hit one of Amazon’s data centers and some clients were down for four hours? You get a credit on your invoice for the following month [...]

By: The Web2 and More Interview – Cloudberry | Web2 and More

The Web2 and More Interview – Cloudberry | Web2 and More — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 04:53:34 +0000

[...] http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/06/11/lightning-strike-triggers-amazon-ec2-outage/ [...]

By: Amazon Web Services getroffen door storing | ISPam.nl

Amazon Web Services getroffen door storing | ISPam.nl — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:07:10 +0000

[...] 11 juni dit jaar werd Amazon AWS ook al getroffen door een storing, als gevolg van blikseminslag en in 2008 hebben delen van Amazon AWS ook al uren lang plat [...]

By: Is the cloud the beginning of Skynet? « Always New Mistakes

Is the cloud the beginning of Skynet? « Always New Mistakes — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:54:45 +0000

[...] will experience downtime because of faulty hardware or problems in the datacenter (like the recent lightning that struck an Amazon datacenter). That means that servers will be so extended that even if you nuked one of the cloud [...]

By: Carl Brooks

Carl Brooks — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:35:13 +0000

Forgive me if this redundant, i cannot for the life of me remeber whether i alreasy commented on this.

here is a story with an Amazon spokeman that confirms the course of events:

http://tr.im/p3VV

By: Lightning hits Amazon | Connecting Clouds

Lightning hits Amazon | Connecting Clouds — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:18:45 +0000

[...] There has been a lighting bringing parts of amazon down (see here) [...]

By: The irony of a cloud knocking out Amazon's EC2 cloud services | Tom Foremski: IMHO | ZDNet.com

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:48:47 +0000

[...] Miller at Data Center Knowledge reports that a lightning storm knocked out power to part of Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing [...]

By: Amazon and the Unexpected : Beyond Search

Amazon and the Unexpected : Beyond Search — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:48:08 +0000

[...] would come to my aid. When I read Rich Miller’s “Lightning Strike Triggers Amazon EC2 Outage” here, I quacked, “Whoops.” Maybe the God of Geese was paying attention to my Kindle Two injunction. [...]